Sentences with phrase «although overweight children»

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Although the subject matter may be uncomfortable, there are a great many parents whose child is overweight or larger than most kids are their age.

Although it is usually associated with alcoholism, it is increasingly diagnosed in individuals who consume little to no alcohol, especially those who are overweight or obese, including adolescents and children.

«Although parents» perception that their children are overweight has been presumed to be important to management of childhood obesity, recent studies have suggested the opposite; when a parent identifies a child as being overweight, that child is at increased risk of future weight gain,» psychology researchers Eric Robinson (University of Liverpool) and Angelina Sutin (Florida State University College of Medicine) write in their paper.

I would be interested in looking into this further in the future, time permitting, but what I can say for now, is that I have worked with many people who have anorexia who were overweight as children or teens, and that the anorexia began in many cases (although certainly not all) as a way to try to control what started to feel like an unhappy and uncontrollable situation at a young age.

Although no one allows their child to become overweight or obese on purpose, being heavy is hard on children.

Being persistently poor was associated with an increased risk of being overweight for the birth cohort, although the difference between persistently poor children and those that avoided poverty was only four percentage points.

There was no significant relationship between poverty duration and being overweight for the child cohort despite the same percentage point difference (although the relationship was significant at the 10 per cent confidence level).